I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

More people should use their library.